I'm not usually a fan of petitions, but it blows my mind that over 7900 Paraguayan tax residents (citizens and expats) have signed petition against dangerous reporting that puts people at risk. People actually care. And these are not random people from internet, but tax residents. You have to sign with your tax id. All is not lost. And by all I mean my faith in human brain.

Petition Against DNIT Resolution 47/26 | Petición Contra Resolución DNIT 47/26

Open petition from concerned Paraguayan residents with verified active personal RUCs against DNIT Resolution 47/26 on cryptocurrency reporting.

Priatelia, @mariannasadecka sa rozhodla po cca dekáde zorganizovať pokračovanie konferencie Bitcoin je retro ( @Bitcoin je retro ) . Kým nie je von program, sú k dispozícii lacnejšie lístky pre ranné vtáčatá. Akcia bude 25. apríla 2026 (sobota) v A4 12:00-23:00. Čakajú vás OG cypherpunks a zamyslenie sa nad tým, či je Bitcoin retro (podľa mňa nie, ale neviem, či vás presvedčím!:).

Bitcoin je retro

I vibed a frontend for Venice.ai using OpenCode and GPT-5.4 — open source, purely static HTML. Supports chat, image generation and video. Nothing is sent to my server, it communicates directly with the Venice API. You can run it locally on localhost (needs to be served through http/s though). Useful if you want to give someone access via an API key without needing to log in. They just enter an API key and are good to go. Source code repo:

GitHub

GitHub - jooray/venice-frontend: Alternative Venice.AI front-end for using it through an API. Supports image, video and chat.

Alternative Venice.AI front-end for using it through an API. Supports image, video and chat. - jooray/venice-frontend

Deployed at:

Venice API Studio

Static Venice API front-end focused on video generation, with image, chat, models, and local documentation.

When I first came to Panama, it was for the residency and potential tax benefits. Residency for a plan B. I think neither of them are as good as other options (Uruguay, Paraguay). But there is something about Panama for real life. If you forget about tax, business opportunities (not a good business environment for me - too unreliable, too slow), it has its charm. Sit at the beach. Drink coconut water and the best coffee in the world. Quite good infrastructure. Quite liberal for most things in practice if not on paper. People go to Costa Rica for pura vida, but I think Panama is better and a bit cheaper. People consider it a tax haven, which it is, but I think it can offer much more. Did I mention the best coffee in the world? :) If you are a solopreneur, creator, or retired, it's a very good home base.

Je rok 2026 a máme kryptoanarchiu (podcast s Wilderom o AI a kúl nových tech pre zvýšenie slobody) Technológie na zvýšenie slobody a súkromia nazývame rôznymi označeniami. Cypherpunk technológie, freedom technológie a podobne. Koncom 1980-tych a začiatkom 1990-tych rokov skupinka ITčkarov rozmýšľala, ako by mohla vyzerať časť spoločnosti, ktorá by tieto technológie používala na asymetrické zvýšenie slobody a nezávislosti od štátov. Túto stratégiu nazvali kryptoanarchia a pustili sa do jej budovania. Rok 2026 je podľa mňa a Wildera rokom, kedy sú všetky základné technológie hotové a masovo používané. A to dokonca tak, že sa o tom pôvodným kryptoanarchistom ani nesnívalo. V prvej časti sa pozrieme na AI revolúciu a ňou spôsobené zmeny v našich životoch aj v spoločnosti, potom preberieme ďalšie technológie. Je to zhrnutie toho zajzaujímavejšieho, čo sme si v poslednej dobe všimli a toho, čo nás čaká tento rok.

Juraj Bednar

Je rok 2026 a máme kryptoanarchiu (s Wilderom)

https://youtu.be/k8g8kpvKaA4 Technológie na zvýšenie slobody a súkromia nazývame rôznymi označeniami. Cypherpunk technológie, freedom t...

Roadstr — a decentralized "Waze" integrated with OsmAnd and a web version. The spec allows sending events via MeshCore as well, otherwise it goes through Nostr. However, MeshCore is not yet implemented — for now, only the event format has been specified for MeshCore. Nostr is functioning. Pull requests welcome.

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GitHub - jooray/roadstr: Decentralized road-event reporting using Nostr and MeshCore. Web and Android

Decentralized road-event reporting using Nostr and MeshCore. Web and Android - jooray/roadstr

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Very good writeup. I'll add a few more things. - in EU, the age verification is using zero knowledge proofs and as far as I know it's mandatory to do it this way. This means that age verification is created from your digital ID, but it's probably unlinkable to your identity or your other verifications. Of course this would be easily bypassable by anyone, because if you can link infinite number of accounts with one id (and there's no way to distinguish it), they figured out they have to do app attestation. So EU that hates American corporations will force you to use stock Apple device or Android with Google stamp (GrapheneOS, or Linux desktop will not work by default). It's funny, because even the reference implementation is proudly open source. But it can't compile and run it yourself - well, you can, but the age verification will be invalid, because you don't have their attestation keys. This is not forcing tracking or a privacy breach, but it's forcing you to a walled garden ecosystem of Apple and Google and into digital ids. Check out

Juraj Bednar

The Internet and Computers Aren't What They Used to Be: Why Your Apps Stopped Working (Hardware Attestation)

I was prompted to write this article when the X (Twitter) app stopped working on my phone. The culprit? New technologies that are fundamentally res...

Final discussions on Chat control 2.0. mandatory id verification is in. This is why Nostr is so powerful. Although not as good as @SimpleX Chat but it has a crucial feature - it's accessible for progressive web apps. One HTML file served and you can use decentralized infrastructure. Because it's very possible that non compliant apps will be kicked out of the stores. And that unfortunately means zero network effect. Alt stores or apks are just not used enough to matter for chat apps.

GM Nostr!